διαίρω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
διαίρω
διαρῶ
Structure:
δι
(Prefix)
+
ἀίρ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to raise up, lift up
- to separate, remove, taking long strides
- to open
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- δῆλον ὅτι διαιροῖμεν ἂν τὴν μετρητικήν, καθάπερ ἐρρήθη, ταύτῃ δίχα τέμνοντεσ, ἓν μὲν τιθέντεσ αὐτῆσ μόριον συμπάσασ τέχνασ ὁπόσαι τὸν ἀριθμὸν καὶ μήκη καὶ βάθη καὶ πλάτη καὶ ταχυτῆτασ πρὸσ τοὐναντίον μετροῦσιν, τὸ δὲ ἕτερον, ὁπόσαι πρὸσ τὸ μέτριον καὶ τὸ πρέπον καὶ τὸν καιρὸν καὶ τὸ δέον καὶ πάνθ’ ὁπόσα εἰσ τὸ μέσον ἀπῳκίσθη τῶν ἐσχάτων. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 167:3)
- τὸ δὲ τῆσ ἀπολέμου μούσησ, ἐν ὀρχήσεσιν δὲ τούσ τε θεοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ τῶν θεῶν παῖδασ τιμώντων, ἓν μὲν σύμπαν γίγνοιτ’ ἂν γένοσ ἐν δόξῃ τοῦ πράττειν εὖ γιγνόμενον, τοῦτο δὲ διχῇ διαιροῖμεν ἄν, τὸ μὲν ἐκ πόνων τινῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ κινδύνων διαπεφευγότων εἰσ ἀγαθά, μείζουσ ἡδονὰσ ἔχον, τὸ δὲ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν ἀγαθῶν σωτηρίασ οὔσησ καὶ ἐπαύξησ, πρᾳοτέρασ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ κεκτημένον ἐκείνων. (Plato, Laws, book 7 170:1)
Synonyms
-
to raise up
- βασάζω (to lift, lift up, raise)
- ἐπανατέλλω (to lift up, raise)
- αἰωρέω (to lift up, raise, raising)
- ἐπαίρω (to lift, raise)
- ἀναβαστάζω (to raise or lift up, carry)
- ὑψόω (to lift high, raise up)
- ἀείρω (to lift up, raise, support)
- ἀκταίνω (to lift up, raise, to raise)
- ἀερτάζω (to lift up)
- ἀνεγείρω (to raise)
- κουφίζω (to make light, to lift up, raise)
- ἐπαναίρω (to lift up, to raise one against another, to rise up)
-
to separate
- βιβάω (to stride, takes, strides)
-
to open